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TriforceOfKirby

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Registered: 2016-01-26

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[SOLVED] Dual booting Windows 10 and Arch Linux with btrfs

I recently installed Windows 10 as I need it for college, which I would like to dual boot with Arch Linux. I originally had Arch Linux installed before, but I figured I would just reinstall it after installing Windows. With this new installation, I would like to try out btrfs this time instead of ext4. As I haven't tried btrfs before, I wanted to ask if there are any special procedures for it during the installation; such as the fstab file and boot entry files?

Also I'll need to free up some space on my drive (I have a 512 GB SSD). According to the Disk Management utility in Windows, I have 3 partitions: a 450 MB Recovery partition, a 100 MB EFI partition, and a 476.39 GB Primary partition.
http://i.imgur.com/Vttvbw0.png
It appears that the recovery and EFI partitions are completely empty, would it be safe to delete these to free up space?

Here's the output of parted print:

Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 512 GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start    End        Size       File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1.00MiB  451MiB     450MiB     ntfs         Basic data partition          hidden, diag
 2      451MiB   551MiB     100MiB     fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 3      551MiB   567MiB     16.0MiB                 Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 4      567MiB   488386MiB  487819MiB  ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata

What would be the recommended way to partition this for use with btrfs?

Last edited by TriforceOfKirby (2016-03-12 15:19:54)

x33a

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Re: [SOLVED] Dual booting Windows 10 and Arch Linux with btrfs

@TriforceOfKirby, don't post oversized images.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

TriforceOfKirby

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Registered: 2016-01-26

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Re: [SOLVED] Dual booting Windows 10 and Arch Linux with btrfs

@TriforceOfKirby, don't post oversized images.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

Whoops sorry; thanks for fixing it.

TriforceOfKirby

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Re: [SOLVED] Dual booting Windows 10 and Arch Linux with btrfs

The beginner's guide suggests a 512 MiB EFI partition. I would assume the Windows boot loader is installed on the 100 MiB EFI partition. Could I increase the size of the partition to 512 MiB and install systemd-boot along side Windows boot loader? Or will that break it?

Last edited by TriforceOfKirby (2016-03-11 15:23:56)

kjchen

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Registered: 2016-02-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Dual booting Windows 10 and Arch Linux with btrfs

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recently dual-booted my machine to have Windows 10 and Arch, and I simply used my Windows EFI partition for my Arch Linux EFI, skipping the need to create another EFI partition solely for Arch. I specifically followed this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=METZCp_JCec